Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

----------~~ ~,-- '" r '0~ ',' "d< - - .~ ._v.., <:~<" ""='-'~. -~~ -!.~i·lIslde ~----~---- America's motorcycle newspaper . Volume XXVII Sharon Clayt on . Publis her Mike Klin ger. ComptrolltT J ack Man gus, A.uocia~ PublisheTlEditm Rheba Sm ith . Circulation M tJrutgN Caroline Cendrv, £:Xl'culi~ S«Tt'lary 10 me Publ ish" -- l - ~~ SUPERCROSS: Stanton stands out in San Diego . . .. . •.... : 6 Edwards, Huffman haul at Houston Amateur SX 34 GRAND PRIX: Roeseler reigns again in Adelanto ,.12 INTERVIEW: The rise and fall of Team Motor Sport • . . .. . . . .. . . 14 HARE SCRAMBLES: Zitterko'pf zaps 'em all in Texas , 18 MOTOCROSS: Healey stars in Marysville GSN , 22 Crumb, Thorwaldson storm Sandhill GFI North 26 Albrecht alright at Perris GFI South ......• . .. . •.... , , . . 28 HARE & HOUND: Searle roosts to Gold Strike victory 32 RACE TECH : Factory supercross bikes , . .•.. , , , . . •36 CALENDAR: Planning ahead , , ,. 4 1 ON THE FRONT PAGE: (Top) Turn to page 36 for a close-up look at the supercross works bikes. (Below) Defending Camel Supercross Champion Jeff Stanton (1) put the skids on Damon Bradshaw's two-race win streak at the San Diego Supercross. See page 6 for race coverage, Photos by Ken Faught. Edito ria l ri ne, m inerals o f a ll sort s, an d who knows what else, the use of th is wa ter will shorten the life of a battery. O n th e other ha n d, a bottle of d istilled water (abo u t $1) is ch ea p insuran ce against an early tri p to the sto re to buy another battery. Keep u p th e good work on an o th erwise fin e colu m n. The more we know about ou r bikes, the safer and more en joyable o u r sport will be. j OSE O BANDO Glendale, AZ We agree with you and , at th e same time, stan d by our statement th at " any water that is safe for drinking, except mineral water, is gen erally safe to use in a battery. Not best, but safe. Most Cycle News staff m embers use dis tilled water, but in a pin ch we've all used tap water • . . Edito r. Headed for Luxembourg J ack Mangus. Editor Kit Palmer, A .~fO€'iat~ FAi lor Pau l Carruthers , A.uociat~ Editor Na te Ra uba . Associote Ed itor Brian Ca tterso n. Associate Edi tor Ken Fa ug ht, Assistan t Edi l.or Edwi na Man gu s. CalrnMY Editor I wo uld lik e to atten d th e August 12 World Cha m p io ns h ip 500cc MX Gp · in Kohlenberg, Luxembourg , durin g my vacation in Europe. Can you p rov id e me with th e address and p hone n u mber of th e ra ce organizers so I can arra nge fo r tickets in advan ce? Advertising Terry Pratt. Senior Sales Manager Ma rk.Thome. Wesl.tTnSales ManJ1gn Ron Davidson. We-s Inn Sales Mana gn Thomas R. Corner, We-sinn Sales Managn Mark.Murh ell , EAstnn S41e-s Ma"a K" G r~ Milchell . Eastern Sales Manag" j oan R ussian , Wt'stnn Ad Coord inat or Carla Borde n. Eo.slem Ad Coord ina tor STEVE SPRONG San jose, CA Graphics .nd Production Rtt J ohnson . Prod lKlicm Supnvisor Ma nd y Loc, PToduction Mana g" Dennis Grttnt, Lab. T ech. Statty C ool, Grap h ic Artu l J immie O'Dell, Graphic Anut Carolyn Branham. T YlJe settn Open letter to off-roaders Accounting/D.ta Procesaing Don na Bryan. AeeLs Receivable CoordifUltOf' Gmn-a Repass. Assut4nl Fra n HamWC"Y. Cymit Circulation Sarah Taylor, Assuta"t Alma Anguiano. Assist4 n' H er ta ne Richmo nd, AuisttJnl Carol Maggio, Assu'a"' DealerS.... Eri c Reece , Ma" agn W.ntAd. Debbi e Weller , Wanl Ad Sales Service .nd Support Chris Aitcheson, Ht'adqWJrlns Rt'Ct'pl on ist ' i Leo na rd H err in g, Smnct' And S upporl N.tion.1Headqu.rters 220 1 Cherry Ave.• Lo ng Beach. CA 90806. P.O . Box 498. Lo ng Beach. CA 9OSO I-0498 215/4 27-7455: 215/656- 8844. FAX 2 15/ 427-6685 E.stern Office 4190 Firs t Ave.• T ucker. G A. JOO84 ; ma ilin g address P.O. Box 805, T ucker . GA 30()85...()8()5. 404/954 ·7850. FAX 4041954-5112 Cycle News (US PS 141·540) is p ublished. .....et-kly except the last two weeks of the calendar year lo r $50.00 per yen by Cycle News. In c ., 2201 Cherry Avenue, Lo ng Beach. CA 90806. Seco nd class postage pai d at Lo ng Beach. CA, and additional mailing o~lic:n. '0 POSTMASTER: Send lonn 3579 Cycle News. P.O . Box 498~ Long a..eh. CA 90801 · 049 8 . To determine the ex piration date of your .ubscription~ check the four numbers on the ti m line at yo ur add,... label . 'The first two digita ind icllt a the Iaa1: iaue number you ~1I receive a nd the last two ehllr8Ct8n indicate the year of the I..t iaue. Subscriptio n rata: Rat es (or the United. Slales and iu possessions lor one year. (SO i uo ). $5C OO; two yon ( 100 issues ), $95.00: ux months, l. (25 issu"), $26.00: tria l sub (15 issues) . SI9.00. Canada a nd Foreign. o ne year (SOissues). $90.00; two yran (100 issuo). $175.00; six months (25 issues ), $45.00; trial sub ( 15 issues). $38.00. Cycl e Ne ws wel comes unso licited edi toria l ma teria l incl udi ng sto ries , cartoons. photos. et c. S uch ma te rial. il p u bl is hed. be comes the exclusive pr operty of Cycle New s. Such accep ted ma teria l is subject 10 revisio n as is nrcnsary in the sole discreuon 01 Cycle News. U nsolicited material ..... hich is not used will be returned il ac co m pa n ied by a self ad d ressed stamped en ve lo pe. All unso licited mat er ia l will be han dled. with reason abl e care. however. Cycle News assu mes no respo nsibil ity lo r the safel)'. loss or damage 10 such mate ria l. Repr int ing in whole or pa n .o n lv by perm ission 01 th e publisher . Adverti sing ra tes a nd circula tio n info rma tio n ..... ill be seru u pon request. Sec S.R.D .S. ?BPA 4 AUDITED CIRCULATION Copyright4t Cycle New•• Inc . 1990. T,. demark Cycle Newa reg iltered U.S . P.ten t Office. All rig hta reMrYed. By th e ti m e yo u read thi s, th e final public hearing on HR780, th e California Desert Protection Act, will be over . If you were not there at the hearing to o ppose th e bill , you eith er have a ' good reason (wo rk, illness, you live m ore than 300 miles from Beverly H ills) or just a lousy excu se (go ahead, p ick one). If yo u have not joined th e AMA and CO RVA , supported th e Ca liforn ia Desert Coal it ion with a donation, su bscribed to Dirt Alert, and written letters to a ll your elected o fficia ls to oppose H R780 and SIl , yo u have no excuse a t all. G ary Whitten o f Anaheim wrote last week that mo torcycl ists m issed a golden opport u ni ty to a lert the 130,000 off-road fans who atten ded th e Mickey Thompson G ra nd Prix and Camel Su percro ss in Anaheim Stadi u m of the im portan ce of atten d ing th e February 10 hearin g. I tried to get a notice in th e program a nd asked th e su percross promoters to make a sho rt announcement, bu t th er e was j ust n o space in th e program or time in th e race sched u le to spare. I find it ironic th at they found a t least 10 minutes to intervi ew Pee Wee race rs and drag race rs. O f co urse, if the desert is closed, riding ins ide a stadiu m or on a quarter -mile pi ece o f pavement may be th e only p laces left untouched by th e en viron me n tal movemenL I'm sorry to say j ha t m ost o ffroa ders are as apatheti c a nd un in formed of th eir bel oved sport as th e Si erra Club is d edi cated to the ex termi na tio n o f OH Vs fro m a ll pub lic la nds. If you're doing some th ing, keep do in g it , th en do more. rr yo u're not, ta ke a hike. Soon you ma y n ot need yo ur to ys any more. PA UL GOLDE Mission Viejo, CA MTEG wo u ld lik e to tha nk Dana Bell , Ken Boyd and all of the Distri ct 37 people who man ned a booth a t th e Motorsport Expo at both Anah eim Stadium events. LA RRY NAST O N Valencia, CA N aston is the announcer at M TEG events . . . Editor. The champ's brother says . The AMA National Championsh ip H are Scrambles Series is slowly becom in g t he Nationa l H are Be H ound Series with races in T exas, Cali fornia an d Idaho. No t that the hare scra m bles ri de rs can' t ride th em , but it's the idea o f desert racing being called hare scram bles. In ta lk ing to Roger Ansel o f the AMA in T exa s, he sa id h e turned down a pplications from very reliab le and woods-oriented p laces just to ha ve races out west so th e West Coa st riders wou ld hav e a chance to ra ce. So the eastern riders spe nd the ir time a nd mo ney to run these races, but, o n the o ther h and, when races come to Kentucky, T ennessee a nd Pennsylvan ia , th e western riders are n ever seen. Nor would th e AMA permit a Na tio na l H are Be Hound to be run a t Blackwa ter. With the new fo rmat, you count yo ur best seven of nine races, so you can' t afford to miss even one race. My point is that you should lea ve hare scramb les in th e woods a n d the mud and run hare and hound ra ces in th e desert. GA RY P LESSI NG ER Hamilton, O H Gary Plessinger is the broth er of defending H are Scrambles National Champio n , Sco tt Plessinger . . . Editor. You missed them Battery water In resp onse to the lett er fro m G ary Whitten in last week 's editio n: We d id in fact mention HR780 a t both these eve n ts (Mickey T ho m p so n G rand Prix and Camel Supercr oss a t Anaheim Stadium). I'm so rry if you did not hear th e a n nou nce ments. This issue effects us a ll, an d I thank you for yo ur letter of co ncern . In regard to your Wo rk bench on battery care (Febru ary 7 issu e), I disagr ee wi th your statement that any wa ter that is safe for drinking is good for yo u r battery. T h e only che micals tha t shou ld go in to a battery are (aside from lead) su lfu ric ac id a nd water (H 20). Si nce we know tha t tap water is loaded with chlo- Th e address is MUL, c/o Marcel Clement, 24 R ue du Stad e, L -3877 Schifflange , Luxembourg, and the phone number is 54-82-01136-8338 .. . Editor. Everybody wins K's H u mble Yamaha-Suzuki . in Humble, Texas, hel d an open h ouse on Feb ruary 2, the day befo re the H o uston Supercross. It was a h u ge success. Suzu ki sai d th ey woul d sen d three of its team members to the open h o u se - G uy Cooper, Ronn ie T ichenor an d Larry Ward. Well, when Suzuki sh owed up, those ri ders were there, plus the other members o f the tearn - j immy Gaddis, Buddy Antunez, Mike La Rocco, jeromy Buehl and Denny Stephenson! As master of cerem onies, I in terviewed each rider an d th en let the crowd ask questions. There were also door prizes given out all afternoon. I believe more dealerships sh ould ge t i nvo lved wi th thi s k ind o f suppor t. Everyb ody wins - the dealersh ip , the riders, and th e customers. T wo other shops in th e area had si milar open house events with factory riders and door p rizes. From what I u nderstand, th e open h ouses at Northwest Honda in H ouston and Clear Lake Kawasaki in Webster were also very successful. I wo ul d li ke to thank Sco tt US A, Answer Products , Oakley, Acerbis and Sinisalo for su pp lyi ng product for door p rizes. LA RR Y HUG H ES Parts Unlimited Dist, Houston, TX Published letters do not necessarily reflect the position of Cycle News, Inc . Letters are subject to condensation due to space limitations. Anonymous letters will not be published, Send letters to Voices, P.O. Box 498, Long Beach, CA 90801-0498.

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